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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Bonus 9: Lesley Bickerton shares her thoughts on how politics, power and shadowy ties to the international drug trade have had negative impacts- on a global scale- before, during and since the Lonestar era.
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1:36.0 | In this week's bonus episode, Leslie Bickerton lays out a case for the complicated connections between the drug trade and the balance of world power and unrest. |
1:55.0 | I'm recognizing more and more Lauren is this connection, this web of connection and it's intimately connected from what happened 42 years ago, which involved directly not only the drug smuggling and the CIA and the subcontractors, but also central America and South America, which also has a connection at the same time. |
2:24.0 | With Afghanistan sort of tracing it back even with Vietnam, it's an ongoing scenario in one sense, a greater insight into the Cold War that just has never ended. |
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